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WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- Three Boston University students who were studying in New Zealand were killed Saturday when their minivan crashed. At least five other students from the university were injured in the accident, including one who was in critical condition....

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- A federal judge's refusal to throw out campaign corruption charges against John Edwards on Friday means that the former presidential hopeful will have to present his case to a jury. Edwards' lawyers are expected to begin calling witnesses on Monday....

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez returns from Cuba, saying his radiotherapy treatment for cancer is over and has been successful.

A church service is held in memory of five children killed in a fire at their home in Derby.

A man is arrested in Rome on suspicion of murdering a man found in a burning car near Southampton.

The Greek president summons party leaders for last-ditch talks on forming a unity government, after days of wrangling and deepening economic fears.

New law review article: Suspicionless Searches of Public School Students: An Empirical Legal Analysis by Jason P. Nance forthcoming in the U. Colo. L. Rev. Abstract:

This Article presents an original empirical legal analysis of recent data from the U.S. Department of Education’s School Survey on Crime and Safety. The results of the analysis suggest that many public schools are violating students’ civil rights by conducting suspicionless, intrusive searches without valid justifications, such as having particularized evidence of a drug or weapons problem. Furthermore, the data indicate that many school officials may be using illegitimate criteria – most notably race – to determine whether to conduct those searches. For example, in schools that did not report any student violations relating to weapons, alcohol or drugs during the school year, schools with high minority populations were more than twice as likely to perform suspicionless, intrusive searches than schools with low minority populations. These findings hold true even when taking into account schools officials’ perceptions of the levels of crime where students live and where the school is located. The results underscore the importance of requiring school officials to provide particularized, objective evidence of a drug or weapons problem to justify these searches under the Fourth Amendment. Performing such searches without sufficient justification violates a fundamental civil right in the very institution where children should be educated about good citizenship. Schools cannot expect students to learn important constitutional principles when school authorities disregard them.

The colleges training British workers in Asian cuisine.

RAGLAND, Ala. (AP) -- When 9-year-old Katelynn Arnold didn't appear right away after one of her frequent bicycle rides along her rural Alabama road, her concerned aunt went to look for the girl....

Ed Miliband steps up pressure on Jeremy Hunt to resign saying 'it beggars belief', that the culture secretary is still in his job.

CHICAGO (AP) -- A Chicago jury convicted Oscar-winner Jennifer Hudson's former brother-in-law on Friday of murdering her mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew in what prosecutors described as an act of vengeance by a jilted husband....

The Royal Navy pilots learning to fly state-of-the-art US fighter jets

CHICAGO (AP) -- A Chicago jury on Friday convicted Oscar-winner Jennifer Hudson's former brother-in-law of murdering her mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew in what prosecutors described as an act of vengeance by a jilted husband....

Norwich Festival of music and art

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) -- A bill designed to prevent Kansas courts or government agencies from making decisions based on Islamic or other foreign legal codes has cleared the state Legislature after a contentious debate about whether the measure upholds American values or appeals to prejudice against Muslims....

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) -- A bill designed to prevent Kansas courts or government agencies from making decisions based on Islamic or other foreign legal codes has cleared the state Legislature after a contentious debate about whether the measure upholds American values or appeals to prejudice against Muslims....

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) -- Gov. Scott Walker said Friday that Republicans gathering for the annual state convention this weekend should be focused on ensuring he and five other Republicans survive June 5 recall elections, even as an intraparty fight over endorsing GOP candidates for the U.S. Senate election threatens to be a distraction....

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) -- Gov. Scott Walker said Friday that Republicans gathering for the annual state convention this weekend should be focused on ensuring he and five other Republicans survive June 5 recall elections, even as an intraparty fight over endorsing GOP candidates for the U.S. Senate election threatens to be a distraction....

Police make a new appeal over a man they want to question about an arson attack which killed eight family members 10 years ago.

Two people are arrested in the US and charged with trying to extort money from the singer Stevie Wonder.